148 CL, AROIDEZ (BROWN). [| Amorphophallus. 
obtuse, labyrinthically rugose, dark purple-brown. Berries } in. long, 
oblong or oblong-obovoid, orange or orange-yellow.—F lore des Serres, ii. 
Oct. t. 161; Bot. Mag. t. 7768. Arum aphyllum, Hook. in Gray, Trav. 
in Western Africa, 386, t. A. Corynophallus Afzelii, Schott in Oesterr. 
Bot. Wochenbl. 1857, 389, Gen. Aroid. t. 32, and Prod. Aroid. 132; 
Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1872, 1619, fig. 343 (spadix inaccurate). C. leon- 
ensis, Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 326. Hydrosme leonensis, Engl. 
Jahrb. i. 187 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 128, and Nachtrige 
zu ii.-iv. 59; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 474; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw, ii. 87. 
Upper Guinea. Futa Jallon: near the River Nunez, Gray. Sierra Leone : 
on grassy mountain slopes near Freetown, Welwitsch, 219! and without precise 
locality, Afzelius ! Scott-Hlliot ! 
Var. spectabilis, N. E. Br. Lower part of the petiole puce-coloured and marked 
with dark linear-oblong spots. lLeaf-segments 4-8 lin. broad.—Corynophallus 
Afzelii, Schott, var. spectabilis, Mast. in Gard, Chron. 1872, 1619. C. leonensis, 
Engl., var, spectabilis, Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 326. Hydrosme leonensis, 
Engl., var. spectadbilis, Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr.v. 474, ~ 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Cultivated specimen ! 
Var. elegans, N. E. Br. Petiole green. Leaf-segments narrow, 3—44 lin. broad, 
drooping.—Corynophallus Afzelii, Schott, var. elegans, Mast. in Gard. Chron, 1872, 
1619. C. leonensis, Engl., var. elegans, Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 326. 
Hydrosme leonensis, Eng)., var. elegans, Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 474. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Cultivated specimen ! 
Var. latifolia, N. E. Br. Petiole green. Leaf less divided than in the other 
forms; segments 3-1 in. broad.—Corynophallus Afzelii, Schott, var. latifolia, 
Mast, in Gard. Chron. 1872, 1619. C. leonensis, Engl., var. latifolia, Engl. in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 326. Hydrosme leonensis, Engl., var. latifolia, Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v.474. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Cultivated specimen ! 
The inflorescence of the above three varieties is unknown, but I doubt if they are 
more than slightly different forms of the typical plant, and scarcely worth distinguish- 
ing by names. 
3. A. dracontioides, V. H. Br. Tuber “large, flattened” 
(Barter), “as large as a child’s head” (Johnson), ‘as large as a Cheshire 
cheese” (Irving). Leaves 5 ft. high (Johnson), “18 in. high, finely 
cut” (Barter); petiole smooth ; segments 3-10 in. long, 24—7 lin. broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering to a fine point, decurrent. Peduncle 
3-2 ft. long, green suffused with purple, and spotted with blackish- 
purple, smooth. Spathe 7-13 in. or more long, 3-8 in. diam., con- 
volute for half its length, cylindric or campanulate at the base, then 
dilating into an ovoid cucullate upper part, with an oblique ovate 
mouth in front, glabrous within and without, dull purple, striped with 
darker purple and spotted with whitish, or light green mottled with 
brown on the outside, shading into a bluish-flesh tint or whitish at the 
base, inside rich dark velvety-purple in the upper part, and striped 
with white and purple-red in the tube. Spadix not exceeding the con- 
volute part of the spathe, stipitate; stipes 4-4 in. long, cylindric; 
